Techstars Startup Digest Decentralized Web

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Hand-picked reading related to blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and the people and protocols behind the imminent new future of the internet. From the founders of Blockstack, a new internet for decentralized apps.

Techstars Startup Digest Decentralized Web is curated by:

Muneeb Ali
- Co-founder, Blockstack
Muneeb co-founded Blockstack, a new decentralized internet where users control their data and apps run without remote servers. Muneeb received his PhD in Computer Science from Princeton University specializing in distributed systems. He went through Y Combinator and has worked in the systems research group at Princeton and PlanetLab—the world's first and largest cloud computing testbed. Muneeb was awarded a J. William Fulbright Fellowship and gives guest lectures on cloud computing at Princeton. He has built a broad range of production systems and published research papers with over 900 citations.

Ryan Shea
- Co-founder, Blockstack
Ryan co-founded Blockstack, a new decentralized internet where users control their data and apps run without remote servers. With his co-founder Muneeb, Blockstack has raised funding from top investors like Union Square Ventures and Naval Ravikant.Ryan majored in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton with a minor in Computer Science. After graduation, Ryan started working on tech startups, where he was inducted into the Forbes 30 Under 30, went through Y Combinator, and authored several popular open source libraries in cryptography and blockchain technology.